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   paraphrase

   /ˈparəfreɪz/

   verb

   • 1. express the meaning of (something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity: "you can either quote or paraphrase literary texts"

   noun

   • 1. a rewording of something written or spoken: "scattered here and there in the text are frank paraphrases of lines from Virgil, Cicero, and Quintilian"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a noun): via Latin from Greek paraphrasis, from paraphrazein, from para- (expressing modification) + phrazein ‘tell’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. paraphrasable adjective
   • 2. paraphrastic adjective

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